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Sherborn Library provides yummy treats

Sherborn Library provides yummy treats
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By Katrina Margolis Hometown Weekly Reporter Thanksgiving is a veritable font of leftovers, yielding sandwiches, soups, and microwaved dinners for days, sometimes weeks, to come. But what about the weeks leading up to Thanksgiving? The Sherborn Library made sure to provide some delicious snacks before the gluttonous holiday through a drop-in Thanksgiving trail mix making...
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FOTSL announce Middlesex Savings grant

FOTSL announce Middlesex Savings grant
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The Friends of the Sherborn Library today announced receipt of a $20,000 grant awarded by the Middlesex Savings Charitable Foundation. The support will allow the Friends of the Sherborn Library (FOTSL) to effect a full-scale redesign of the Sherborn Library website to increase communication and promotion by FOTSL of services and programming they...
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As renovation looms, library hosts contractors

As renovation looms, library hosts contractors
Recently, patrons may have noticed groups of visitors to the Sherborn Library looking for something other than the new best-selling book, a favorite periodical or assistance with a research project. On October 26, interested general contractors and subcontractors were invited to come and look, walk through the library building, and stroll the surrounding site, all...
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Sherborn’s learners love littleBits

Sherborn’s learners love littleBits
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By Stephen Press Hometown Weekly Staff The afternoon light streams through Sherborn Library, bathing its space with a warm, calm glow. Regulars quietly sit, browsing through stacks of books and quietly scanning periodicals. The amiable librarians go about their business, keeping the space ship-shape. Then, there is the sound of a noisemaker, not unlike that of...
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Sherborn Library clean-out

Sherborn Library patrons and local residents may have noticed the appearance of a large, blue dumpster on the lawn near the library’s main doors. In anticipation of the construction project, the library must be emptied. Library Building Committee (LBC) member Libby Yon is working with Library Director Elizabeth Johnston to coordinate the cleanout of nearly...
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Making Jonahs of us all at Sherborn Library

Making Jonahs of us all at Sherborn Library
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By Cameron Small Hometown Weekly Intern Call me Ishmael, and prepare for Captain Ahab’s call of “Thar’ she blows!” Last Thursday, July 14, the Sherborn Library hosted Cynde McInnis, the creator of the Whalemobile and the inflatable humpback whale, Nile. Since Nile is a life-size inflatable, the event was held across the street at the Sherborn...
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Sherborn Library renovation updated

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The Sherborn Library renovation and expansion project is well under way, with plans and designs that reflect community input gathered through both formal and informal surveys, as well as from direct project feedback. Most recently, several members of the Library Building Committee (LBC) created an updated survey, which they used to solicit input from...
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